• Backporting package which missed bookworm.

    From Alec Leamas@21:1/5 to All on Mon Apr 17 18:10:01 2023
    Dear list,

    I'm trying to handle the opencpn package. Upstream has just released
    5.8.0. Despite other intentions, it has thus missed bookworm.

    Hence I need to use the backports. I see no particular problem with
    backporting 5.8.0 from sid/testing once it's there to bookworm-backports.

    However, what about bullseye-backports? At which point can I backport
    the package in sid (yet ot be uploaded) to bullseye? Of course, what I
    want is to do it "now".

    Any advice out there?
    --alec

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  • From Paul Wise@21:1/5 to Alec Leamas on Tue Apr 18 05:20:01 2023
    On Mon, 2023-04-17 at 18:02 +0200, Alec Leamas wrote:

    Hence I need to use the backports. I see no particular problem with backporting 5.8.0 from sid/testing once it's there to bookworm-backports.

    This can only happen after it reaches testing, so after the bookworm
    release after testing becomes trixie and opencpn migrates.

    However, what about bullseye-backports? At which point can I backport
    the package in sid (yet ot be uploaded) to bullseye? Of course, what I
    want is to do it "now".

    That isn't possible, but you can upload to bullseye-backports-sloppy:


    https://backports.debian.org/Contribute/#index4h3

    With the release of a new stable version uploading packages with
    versions greater than in new stable or new stable-security are not
    allowed. So if you want to upload a new package version from e.g.
    bookworm to buster, use buster-backports-sloppy as the target
    distribution.

    --
    bye,
    pabs

    https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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